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July 29, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Downingtown, PA
Once again, for the third time this week I have seen the exact same phenomena in the night sky above my apartment’s parking lot. Each of the previous two sightings occurred in relatively the same way and I have filed a report each separate instance, however I would like to once again describe what I witnessed for consistency’s sake. Around 10:50 PM I (as I often do) decided to take a walk around my apartment complex to look at sky/stars . It probably goes without saying, but with the frequency with which I had witnessed strange phenomena from earlier in the week (7/26 and then 7/27) I was really eager to be able to see and document this phenomena so I have been going out for walks daily. Thankfully the sky was much clearer this particular evening and as I turned around to face the area of the sky which I had witnessed the phenomena before, at 11:00 PM on the dot exactly I had seen it again. Essentially the experience had occurred in the same way as it had the previous two times this week. I was facing North/North West and adjacent (left) to the Big Dipper, I had seen a white light which had a similar size/shape and brightness as many of the stars in the area. However, after focusing on this specific light I noticed that this light was slowly moving towards the South. Though it appeared to be moving slowly from my vantage point, it must have been moving pretty quickly due to how small it looked. I once again tried to look for any sort of flashing navigation lights and saw none, nor did it have any discernible features of a man-made craft - it did not make any sounds whatsoever. Each of my other experiences with this phenomena only lasted 10-15 seconds and normally ended in the light just disappearing as it was traveling from N/NW to East. This time however, the light was going from N/NW towards the south and instead of simply disappearing into the sky, I felt like I was able to see it actually traveling diagonally upwards and then I lost sight of it. Unfortunately every other time that I have witnessed this light, I was profoundly startled and was unable to capture any really discernible photo/video evidence. However, I was relatively prepared this time and was thankfully able to obtain a whole minute video of this phenomena (which I will be sending along with my report). Due to this being the third time that I am reporting this, I can understand a certain skepticism that some might read this with and felt that it would be important to do some de-bunking of my own before just making the report - I do not believe this was the International Space Station, as it does not fly over my area at that time of night, and I do not believe that it was a satellite. I do not believe that this was related to comet Neowise, as I was able to witness that earlier in the month and it was an entirely different type of event because I was able to see the comet’s tail and it was traveling in the exact opposite direction of this light. I appreciate the ability to document my experiences through NUFORC and am hopeful that this might provide some insight to the general UFO phenomena.
July 28, 2020 · 4:00 PM · DISK
Schnecksville, PA
I was walking in the local park testing a new lens for my micro four thirds Camera, I didn’t see the object in the video until I reviewed it later on. Seems to be a solid disc like object traveling at a high rate of speed, zoomed in it looks like there is another object behind the one that zips across the frame. I’ve seen thousands of insects fly in and out of my video frames, this object appears more solid to me. Insect or Aliens? Neither would surprise me lol. Video has been emailed to, it is mp4 1080 30p
July 28, 2020 · 5:27 AM · CROSS
Holland, PA
Bright white object in sky, larger than a star and hovering closer than a star. The object exploded a few times into a large white circle. At one point I could see light on the sides of the object pulsing (in a cross shape) almost like wings. It eventually ascended upward into the sky resembling a star but remained in the sky until a little after sunrise. I took a video of it with my phone.
July 27, 2020 · 11:01 PM · LIGHT
Downingtown, PA
Once again, as I often do, I decided to take a walk around my apartment complex to look at stars, etc. I have been particularly eager to continue my evening walks recently as just the night prior (July 26th) I had seen a strange light moving in the sky and then disappear/travel upwards. This time however, I casually strolled out to the adjacent parking lot without even thinking or expecting to see anything odd in the sky and as soon as I turn around towards the N/NE (looking @ Big Dipper), I saw almost the exact same phenomena as I had the night prior. This time, a light was traveling slowly from the North/NEast towards the East. The light was traveling very slowly (relative to a conventional aircraft), but appeared small and did not have any other flashing/navigation lights on the object (no sound as well). I was incredibly startled this time I had seen the object just for the sheer fact that I saw the almost exact same phenomena as I had the night before. ! As a result, I struggled to get a recording and was also startled by some passers-by. As soon as I had looked back up to the sky to see the object, it had completely disappeared or vanished from the path that it was on.
July 27, 2020 · 4:15 AM · FORMATION
Portage, PA
I got home from work early in the AM and looked up at the sky. I noticed a small cluster of white orbs which I thought were stars at first. I noticed they would get bright then dissapear and reappear anywhere from 10-15 seconds. They were pretty high up with in a formation that resembled and arrow. 2 in a straight line going up and 3 that formed the “arrowhead” I watched them for about 15 minutes. They did not move far and to me it looked like the 2 that were in a straight line would hover closer then farther away from each other. I also noticed a few shooting stars the same night.
July 26, 2020 · 11:20 PM · LIGHT
Downingtown, PA
The light was very high in the sky so that it looked like it was a star, however it started to move forwards towards the East. One it had moved forwards for about 6 seconds, it proceeded to move higher and disappear.
July 21, 2020 · 9:40 PM · FORMATION
Whitehall, PA
I was watching the stars with some friends over a campfire, the sun was going down but it was not too dark yet. Clear skies. What seemed like out of nowhere in the middle of the sky I seen 5 to 6 orange-ish balls/orbs that formed an arrowhead, flying right to left in the sky. The colors of the balls reminded me of the sky when the sun is setting, the orange/pink/red hues. They were below cloud level, and faster than a plane but made no noise. The balls kind of bounced and bobbed but stayed in formation. There was absolutely no light to them, and were not bright. They almost looked see-through. I watched for a few seconds before I told anyone trying to figure out what it was then when I realized what was happening I quickly told my friends to look but the orbs were already dissipating. No-one else was able to see them
July 18, 2020 · 10:52 PM · SPHERE
Chester Springs, PA
One large round orange sphere. Steady glow moving steadily west to east. Relative size comparison to half full moon when viewed high in sky
July 17, 2020 · 11:17 PM · DISK
Nazareth, PA
I noticed a very brite star. The light coming off of it with the stars around made it so I could see all around it. I could see a shape like the edge of a disc or cigar with the light in the middle. I could also see it was gray. I focused on it trying to figure out what it was when I realized it was moving. It was moving slow in a jerking motion,then it went fast and stopped. I questioned myself if I was seeing it move when it turned around to come back. It made like a square U to come back. It was over me again. It started to do the slow jerking motion going a few feet to the left then went in reverse to where it started. It did the same to the right. After it went slow in a circle and back and forth it stood still. I tried to get pics and video but I only had my cell phone. After 5 minutes it went slow in a line then picked up speed and went over the mountain behind me. I drove to go around the mountain but never saw it again Summary No doubt what I saw over me
July 17, 2020 · 10:00 AM · SPHERE
Havertown, PA
I was looking at Saturn and Jupiter in the Eastern sky around 10 pm when I noticed a light traveling from the East heading northwest towards me. I assumed it was a plane because it was coming from the direction of Philadelphia International Airport. It made no sound so I assumed it was flying high but it seemed to be moving too fast if it was in high altitude. Then it seemed to stop and fade in brightness as it got smaller and smaller till it disappeared. I immediately thought I must be looking at a rocket heading out into space but that made no sense. The whole thing happened in a span of about ten seconds. I’m an amateur astronomer and quite familiar with the night sky and the planes that cross my region. This wasn’t a plane. It was a round bright object appearing slightly larger than Jupiter in the night sky. What struck me was how fast it all happened. I was thinking, “That’s funny, a plane coming from Philly and already that high in the sky?” Then it s! tops and heads out to o space? Weird. Did I see a UFO?
July 15, 2020 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Hellertown, PA
I was walking my dog behind my townhouse when I noticed a red "fireball" moving toward me in the sky. It reminded me of the embers that rise from a bonfire or the light ball that represents a fairy in movies. It moved very fast and then seemed to hover for a few moments before veering off to my left in the direction of Allentown and then just disappeared. I stood there for a few moments thinking WTF did I just see then continued to allow my dog to sniff around but stayed pretty much in the same spot. I looked up again a few minutes later and saw the exact same thing, coming from the same direction and behaving in exactly the same way. I heard my neighbor come out of their place and i called him over. He watched the second one with me. It did the exact same peel off toward Allentown and then after a distance just disappeared. My dog did not respond to either sighting. We saw planes on their normal flight path from ABE airport in Allentown but they ! all looked normal and did not appear to be anywhere near whatever it was we saw.
July 15, 2020 · 3:00 PM · CIGAR
Glen Mills, PA
cigar shaped 3 attached together not shiney. more like pewter nothing but metal very close to me and very large it filled the space no other marks i live in the woods it flew in a opening in trees right to left. i live near the phila air port and i look up if i hear a plane flying over which i heard it was and very high about 1 and a half inches long meaning it was quite high. it was then when i saw the ufo ? quietly go by after much thought and 2 more different sighings. 1 a full moon several mouths later about 3 am (i think it was called something like a pig full moon.) which i never heard of so when i got up in the middle of the night. i looked out my window to see this full moon when a lighted ramp came from the moon and a lighted firey ball came down the ramp toward me through the woods ,it was fall and no leaves on trees, it turned toward me i backed away from the window quickly as it scared me i went back and looked again every thing was gone 2 a ? lighting ball came thru my bed room ? i in one window and out an other no damage ? i though i should report these events hope this helpful. although there were neighbors no reports were made that i saw i can draw the object but dont know how to send the image.
July 15, 2020 · 12:00 AM · CIRCLE
Emmaus, PA
What appeared to be a white star circling a red circle. Object was not sporadic in movement.
July 14, 2020 · 10:16 PM · CYLINDER
Lords Valley, PA
NOTE: I have also submitted this to MUFON as case 110160 and I am NICAP's MADAR Node # 44 in Pike County , Pa. I am a NJ MUFON Field Investigator at my summer home in Lords Valley, Pa. in a rural community in the Pocono Mountains surrounded by forest called Hemlock Farms. Yesterday was a beautiful cloudless night in the Poconos with a gazillion stars. I took my kids out to look for comet NEOWISE but we were disappointed but just for a bit! Something spectacular happened. I love to stargaze and was on my porch in a pitch black forest watching the stars for 2 hours with my 8 y/o son David explaining the big dipper etc. At exactly 10:16 p.m. eastern time, we witnessed an object traverse the sky from southeast to northwest in no more than 8 seconds. It was an orange cylinder. No FAA standard lighting whatsoever. No comet or meteorite like trail behind it. At arms length it was the size of my pinky nail. It did not fly head to tail but rather sideways which I found bizarre as that is not aerodynamic. I used my closed fist to judge that it took 7 fists at 10 degrees of sky each to cross the heavens till I lost it behind my roof. 70 degrees of sky in 8 seconds give or take is FAST. I did not have my phone but it would have been gone by the time i readied the camera anyway. I ran to check the time (exactly 10:16 pm) and went to my computer to check flightradar24.com which uses UTC time which is tomorrow's date July 15 at 3:16 a.m. Attached is a screenshot of what I saw overlapping an otherwise silent flightradar24.com sky for the 15 minutes before and after the event. I am a very savvy MUFON Investigator and have never filed a MUFON report of my own but this thing was anomalous. Please see my attached screengrab with notations. Here is my dilemma. I also belong to NICAP's MADAR project which means I have a radar setup containing a very loud DAS alarm and a baramoter/magnetometer checking for magnetic or barometric changes. My NICAP MADAR node IS #44. DAS alarm has never gone off in months. In my humble opinion this thing should have triggered my DAS alarm. It did not. My son became frightened and ran in the house when he saw it. I don't know how to calculate the speed of an object crossing 70 degrees of sky in 8 seconds but it was really fast!!!! Does anyone know the formula? Please teach me it if you know! Additionally i get a lot of small Cessna type aircraft flying at between 2 and 4 thousand feet. Moments later such a craft passed by flying east to west. Judging by its size I estimate the orange sideways cigar was lower than 2000 feet and probably about 30 feet long but incredibly thin, perhaps only 2 feet wide from front to back. No noise. Speed blew the Cessna out of the water. Cessna took about 40 seconds to cross the same amount of sky. I have been a photo analyst for MUFON for about 3 years. I have looked at hundreds of videos of orbs, triangles, cigars, etc. While it was a common shaped cigar, it was glowing orange which is something I never saw before and it wasn't flying nose to tail but rather width-wise (imagine airplane wings without a fusalage.) This,for me rules out meteor however I have not had a chance to check the American Meteor Society fireball logs on their website yet. However it followed a straight path without variance and I feel it was a craft rather than an odd shaped orb. It was,however, the exact color typical of an orb, the kind which Pa. MUFON F.I. Terry Ray investigates!! Recent advances in plasma technology can engulf an aircraft and appear as a plasma in the sky. This is done because plasma absorbs a radar beam and nothing is returned to the ground station which is why I think this object did not show on flightradar24.com even though it is visible to the naked eye. The other reason it may not have shown was because it was below radar level under 2000 feet by my reckoning. Finally in the flightradar24.com screen grab you can see the only air traffic of note was far to the east - two planes depicted as yellow objects. NOTE: Flightradar24.com uses UTC time. which is 5 hours later than eastern u.s. time. therefore the bottom of the flightradar24 screen grab shows July 15, 3:16 a.m. rather than local time of July 14, 10:16 pm. My feeling is that it was a UAV, but please feel free to disagree or call me with any additional questions you may have! I have been wrong before. I am also submitting to NUFORC as sometimes they get sightings similar to mine that MUFON doesn't get and vice versa! Thank you!
July 14, 2020 · 10:15 PM
Lords Valley, PA
Upon checking node 44 log data was noted that there was considerable compass heading change during the five-minute period of one-minute datalines of 03:15:27 to 03:20:32 from 300.3 degrees to 306.05 degrees at the same time the field readings went from, or 1.5 milligaus to 13.5 milligaus. Node 44's threshold was set at 30, so with 13.5 milligaus it did not trigger, but the readings did increase from 10:15 pm to 10:20 pm.
July 14, 2020 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Upper Chichester, PA
At approximately 22:00 on 7/14/20 my daughter and I went outback of our house to watch the ISS flyover. It was a clear sky and we could see many stars. We noticed a quick pulsating/flashing light that was flying from the south to the north. It would have a pulsating kind of quick flashing light and then stop and then a second or two later it would appear again but not exactly in a straight line, lit was flying pretty much from north to south but it would flash/disappear/ flash again but way ahead of where the last flash was and maybe off to the side/disappear again then flash again way ahead of the last flash. I honestly couldn’t tell if it was multiple objects or one object. The lights were moving very fast. I know what a high flying plane looks like. I know what satellites look like. I skywatcher a lot. I wish I could explain it better. Basically imagine a high jet that blinked/stopped/blinked again by way ahead and maybe off to the side a little bit/ sto! p/ blink again way ahead but on the other side of the last blink. Not a straight line but moving in the same direction super fast and no sound whatsoever
July 13, 2020 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Worthville, PA
Bright light traveling from west to east. Changed direction towards northeast. Appeared to zigzag slightly and speed also appeared to change. No sound and took maybe 10 minutes to go out of sight.
July 13, 2020 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Sandy Lake, PA
I live on top of a big hill in our town, and you can see pretty far in all directions. II went outside at around 11:00 PM because I thought I heard our cat scratching at the door. When I went out onto our front porch, I noticed that the sky was extremely clear, as we live in a rural area. I saw this “star” from a little ways away, and noticed that it was moving . I assumed it was a plane. It was coming straight towards my house. I called my 11 year old son to come outside and watch it with me. When it flew directly over top of my house, I realized it was not a plane. It was very very low, about as low as people normally fly a drone, but there was NO noise. It was dead silent. It was the exact shape, color, and size as a star, but it was moving at a very steady speed, in a completely straight line, and WAY lower. We could not figure out what it was. Our neighbor has a drone, and they are very loud and go all over the place, up or down. I have never witnessed an! ything like this thing before in my life. It was almost like it was on some sort of autopilot. We watched it for as long as we could, and it continued in a perfect straight line, at a consistent speed. Now my son and I are a little disturbed and can’t go to sleep!
July 13, 2020 · 10:54 PM · LIGHT
Thorndale, PA
I was standing outside looking at stars in parking lot and noticed that there was a small light that was traveling towards the Northeast. It was unable to see any distinct stars around the object to use as a reference and the light appeared to be lower in altitude (and therefore larger than the fixed stars). I tried to use building in close proximity to determine whether the object was in fact moving and it seemed to be traveling along that straight path for the minute or so I was able to see it. The object was slowly traveling along this (relatively) straight path until I was unable to see it due to distance & moving behind tree-line. Approximately 10-15 minutes after I had seen this object slowly moving along the Northeast, I had heard and seen a plane (not sure if military or otherwise but had lights that were different from conventional commercial aircraft) traveling extremely fast and then out of my view in the same direction as the luminous object had ! just minutes before. Then, after about 3 or so minutes the same (if not very similar) aircraft had came back at a lower altitude going in the Southwest direction and was moving very slowly.
July 12, 2020 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
New Kensington, PA
Alien driving car, face to face encounter. As I was driving to get snacks I stopped at the stop sign and proceed to let the car to the right of me go. As it pasted me I thought it was a bald man. As the grey car (sorry not a car person I do not know make or model) gets halfway through the intersection I noticed this "man's" skin was very grey. My headlights were shinning directly in car. I proceed to move my gaze down the forehead and into the eyes. Where I saw two extremely black eyes looking back at me. My heart stopped when my brain understood that I was face to face with a grey alien who was driving a car. As he was pulling out he looked back at the road and drove away. I wish I thought to take a picture in those five seconds but I was in pure shock and terror. I've always believed they were out there but face to face with one is a shock that I was not ready for. I do not believe it was a mask in any form, the head moved to easily with no wrinkles in the neck area and the eye shape was not makeup the whole entire eye was oval. I know they can do magic with make-up but I am in the world of film and have amazing 20/10 vision . The chills that I feel when my gaze met "his" is enough for me to know, I came face to face with a grey alien today. They are here, with us, even driving our cars around. This is a lot to take in, we are not alone. The universe is huge its impossible that we are, but real confirmation with my own eyes, has me shook and it will for a long time.
July 11, 2020 · 10:58 PM · CIRCLE
Erie, PA
My son and I witnessed three red/orange hovering craft in a perfect triangle in the clear northeast sky. The object to the left started moving North & disappeared quickly. After a couple seconds the middle object did the same thing and then the third followed.
July 11, 2020 · 10:45 PM · CIRCLE
Irwin, PA
At about 10:40 PM on July 11th, 2020 I took my dog outside in our back yard to use the bathroom. It was quiet for about the first 15 seconds of being outside. Next, my dog and I heard not one but multiple dogs barking and running down our street. I didn't hear any reports from neighbors or on our local Facebook lost animals page about lost dogs in our area either. I volunteer for a local non-profit dog rescue and tend to get involved when people are looking for their lost pets. I decided to investigate the situation. I took my dog inside, grabbed my shoes and a flashlight. I walked out the back door in our back yard and proceeded to the front of the house. I could hear the dogs barking around me but couldn't see them. I stood out front on the street puzzled for about a minute . I walked about 20 or 30 feet up the street which was to the northwest. I paused and looked across the horizon in the sky toward the northwest. I immediately noticed a fairly large cir! cle object that appeared to be lifting from a location about a one mile away from where I was standing. The object was glowing red, not that bright but bright enough to see the outline of the object. I watched it move to the east and then south east toward my direction at a steady speed but at the same attitude. It approached my street and I could see that the glowing red light was pulsing and the object looked semi-transparent. It was completely silent as it flew as well. As it was about to past over me, I heard the dogs from earlier barking and running throughout the neighborhood once again. Even though I was about 40 feet from my house, I could hear my two dogs barking as well. It freaked me out that I stopped looking at the object in the sky, and started to scan the area on the ground for the dogs running in the neighborhood. A few seconds later, all the dogs stopped barking. It was complete silence. I took my eyes off the object for about 5 seconds. I looked up in the ! sky again and saw that the object was now right above me but w! as at an higher attitude now. It traveled between my property and my neighbors property going east. I ran to the back of the yard to see if I could see it better but the treeline was blocking my view of the object.
July 11, 2020 · 10:17 PM · SPHERE
New Florence, PA
At first it seemed against a clear night sky we were witnessing a shooting star. It shot across the stars stopped still illuminated, paused a few seconds then continued to travel very very very slowly. . At this time to the very far right of this event a second light appeared. It traveled very slowly towards the first light . We thought perhaps these were sattilites. But satellites dont move the way these were. Then as soon as the appeared, they just vanished against the black sky. I kept looking up and I'm glad I did as this time there were three lights to appear flying in a triangle formation. Travelling very slowly they were glowing white whit a hint of red towards the end of the orb shape. They did this for about 7 seconds before simply vanishing.
July 11, 2020 · 10:00 PM · OTHER
West Chester, PA
Sitting on the second story deck about 10 PM. Dark cloudy night but the clouds started drifting apart. A few stars appeared then a VERY bright one which looked like three stars stacked right on top of each other. Thought it might be a plane but it did not move, then it began to wobble left and right while not leaving it's position. Then clouds came in and obscured it.